Interview with Gaëtane Ricard-Nihoul, Secretary-General of the ‘Notre Europe’ think tank from 2004 to 2011 and political analyst for the European Commission Representation in France since 2011, carried out by the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 26 September 2012 at the residence of the Luxembourg Ambassador to France in Paris. Conducted by François Lafond, Managing Director of EuropaNova, the interview particularly focuses on the following aspects of the life of Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa: his personality, his role as Chairman of Notre Europe from 2005 to 2010 and his work as Italian Minister for the Economy and Finance from 2006 to 2008.